Youth Worker Journal continually asks youth workers, “What is on your heart?” Like every youth worker, my heart is on students. My heart is thinking about how students will be able to put their faith into practice and express it through the way they live and talk. I am noticing a common trend when I...

Despite all the challenges that come with being a youth ministry rookie, the results and rewards are ultimately worth every single headache. "I have the best job in the world," said Christopher Dinnell, who just completed his first year as youth minister at Urbana United Methodist Church in Urbana, Ohio.

Introducing youthministry360, a new youth ministry resource provider.

Veteran youth worker and author Mark DeVries has helped 170 churches since launching Youth Ministry Architects eight years ago. He often was asked, “Can you help us with our children’s ministry?” Now the answer is, “Yes!”

I was born under the most degenerate conditions imaginable in a little village called Mpintimpi in rural Ghana. A primitive, makeshift, wooden structure that had ordinary gravel for floor that opened at the top to the tropical sky. Poverty, deprivation, adversity, degradation—all the epithets we associate...

Ministry killers lurk in every church, waiting to ambush unsuspecting leaders.

We're giving away five copies of the satirical "field guide to all things Christian"

The contest is closed -- will announce winners next week!

Since April 7, 1991, Just Pray NO! has sought to unite Christians from around the world in intercessory prayer on behalf of the addicted and their families. Not only is substance abuse America's number one health problem, but the devastation of alcoholism and other drug addiction has impacted families...

If you find yourself looking at a screen more than you do a kid’s face, it’s time to turn the electricity off and power up in the Word of God.